noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
running
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The other servants were at market or running errands .
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Poor country girls running errands in the marketplace were lured by tales of desirable factory jobs.
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She never wasted time running errands .
■ NOUN
boy
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An errand boy must have his fling, you know.
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Fritz was maid, butler, and errand boy , the stalwart ninny who never spoke a word of complaint.
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They are not a packet of sweets to be labelled with certain addresses and delivered by the errand boy .
■ VERB
run
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An officer who wants to take it easy, for example, or run personal errands can do so with virtual impunity.
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The boys run errands for the proprietor of a nearby video arcade, who pays them in quarters.
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He often got me out of bed, late on an evening, to run an errand .
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He soon got to know the young kids who eked a living by carrying luggage, polishing shoes or running errands .
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Moira Anderson vanished without trace in a snow storm while running an errand for her grandmother on 23 February 1957.
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I started out as a gofer, running errands for him and doing odd little jobs.
send
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She missed the rest of the rehearsal because Mary Deare kept sending her out on errands .
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Or a child is sent on an important errand by the parent but does not carry out the request.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(send sb on) a fool's errand
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Before you disappear, I want you to do an errand for me.
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I used to pick up her dry cleaning and run errands for her.
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Peter cleaned equipment, ran errands, answered the phone -- it was all routine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After all, we plan for meals, work, dental visits, errands, and television programs.
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And among unloved tasks, household chores and errands, cleaning is one of the most hated.
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As soon as you paid some one to run an errand , a record of payment was created.
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He often got me out of bed, late on an evening, to run an errand .
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My superior self was on a quixotic errand !
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Our morning had been devoted to running errands and visiting the obligatory temples.
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The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand .
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They all had lots of last-minute errands to do.